I own all three. Easiet to shut fanboy out of this thread.

Jusino head is surprising good. But tripod built is lousy(seriously bad and flimsy). Plate release safety is reliable. But the plate doesn't has a edge stopper to stop the plate from turning itself lose from the camera. It's plate its slightly diff from other plates (smaller) with end up plate from other brand can't be use on the QR head *tested with sirui and benro plate, although jusino claimed is based arca swiss QR design.

Sirui head is lousy like manfrotto (sold mine) (comparing with Apple to Apple worth rm300 head). Its not smooth. Tripod build is average, but the clip lock for the tripod legs is spring! It get rusted if u shoot on seawater or even rain if u don't clean it properly after shoot in extreme condition. The plate has 2 red edge stopper(UGLY) for camera so the plate go lose if u twist it around.

Benro, in other hand, is lightest, stronger leg, (really better fibre weaving,) smaller to travel with. The head aren't as smooth as jusino, but still hell lot better then manfrotto,sirui,fotopro. The custom plate with single hedge edge (PC 50) is my fav general purpose plate, it doesnt turns around because the edge henge is blocking it on the camera edge from turning.

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go SG now, benro and sirui has big christmas promotion damn cheap now! as cheap as jusino now! i heard the cf travel angel is around 600+myr (after convertion)

spec sheet dont tell u much until u actually TOUCH IT and USE IT. although sirui state 12kg LoadLimit, its not smooth at all! jusino was surprisingly smooth even it rated at 10kg LL. my benro used for 2 years+ (which i brought for 2k back then) the head still smooth, but then, the jusino i had is new, never used, so the head kinda, like new smooth.

i wont say jusino head is better, but the smoothness tells everything. if turning the camera up and down left right is not smooth, its pointless to pay so much for the head when cheaper panhead can do better.

only people who uses his jusino extremely can tell how good it last. i headly use the jusino as its heavy (non CF) lol

reason i got so many pods is because sometimes i set 2 camera to do 1-2 hours startrails. so i leave it there to shoot itself.

actually, any tripod can use la, its just personal satisfaction only... kakakaka but when u going hi end, the value for money is big concern. but when u play to get cheap pod like 300-400, u cant expect ur head to work like a rm300 head rite?

my next target is the fotopro m5 mini... sooooo cute!

try go to benro website, search the sg authorised distri email/number mail them.

the promo info i got is from a friend who planning to go SG for christmas (backpacking style) and plan to grab a travel tripod there. he mailed most tripod company and those are the feedback he gotten, and yes, sirui is having a promotion too(damn cheap!), and benro have not release the promotion advert yet, but they are in progress of doing it. now i also heard fotopro wanna do promo also... wahahaha.

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Added on December 15, 2011, 12:51 pmthat the reason i wont recommend ppl sirui.

let say, i buy a tripod, do i expect it to last 5 year or 10 year or more then 15 years?
anything with spring and use under all weather condition, i wont expect it to live pass 5 years. because they get rusty.
at that price you are paying, do u, get a 5 year lifetime product or longer lifetime one?

This post has been edited by ieR: Dec 15 2011, 12:51 PM

There is two head model, the one with BH00 is damn cheap, but that one only offered by shashinki, other online store or shop only come with B series head, not BH. BH is the non 'friction' knob one. please check again. because 3 years ago i make the same confusion to myself too.


so will jusino, sirui and fotopro. infact, jusino improve the pod future by having the center column split to two, and use the other half on the monopod, hence another 20cm gain to monopod height.

anytime m5 is better~ anytime.